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- From: ecc_jim@ecc.tased.edu.au
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: BLACKHOLES IN THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.130139.424@ecc.tased.edu.au>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 13:01:39 +1000
- References: <Bt6xuL.2K2@ecf.toronto.edu> <1992Aug19.103748.422@ecc.tased.edu.au> <5117@tuegate.tue.nl>
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- In article <5117@tuegate.tue.nl>, johan@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Johan Wevers) writes:
- > ecc_jim@ecc.tased.edu.au writes:
- >>
- >>Would it necessarily fall to the *centre* of the Earth. I'm no physicist but I
- >>certainly remember back in my pre-university days being taught in a physics
- >>class that within a solid spherical body of uniform density the gravitational
- >>attraction is uniform throughout the body.
- >
- > That's not correct: the gravitational potential in such a body rises linear
- > from 0 to V_0 from the centre to the edge, and then falls with V_0/r^2.
- >
- > The situation you describe holds for an empty sphere.
- >
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- This and other mail have confirmed that this indeed was for an empty sphere and
- not a solid body.
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- As I said it was thirteen years ago, but above all I can still say I learnt
- something!
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- Jim Palfreyman
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- jim@r140.tased.edu.au
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